Re: Subject: RE: Purge RMAN backups from old repository

Dennis,

These are backups of the development enviroments (500-700GB+). I like to keep the last one for some time and delete all others. I am using RMAN with catalog.

Thanks
Manmohan
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• Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Williams" <oracledba.williams_at_gmail.com> To: mjalsing_at_lycos.com Subject: Re: Subject: RE: Purge RMAN backups from old repository Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:50:34 -0500

>
> Manmohan
> Wow! You really, really want to remove those old backups! Is there
> a strong reason or do you just like to clean things up?
> You don't say if you were using RMAN with a catalog or in
> controlfile mode. I have had serious problems attempting to use a
> different SID than RMAN is aware of. You are right that the DBID is
> also critical.
> Good luck with this.
>
> Dennis Williams
>
> On 6/22/05, Manmohan Jalsingh <mjalsing_at_lycos.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Vitalis and Tom for your responses.
> >
> > I need to drop the old RMAN backups from 9i repostory as well as
> > from tsm media.
> > I can use the old control file to mount the 9i instance and then
> > delete the old
> > backups. As, there is a 10g database running with same SID,
> > Oracle may not allow
> > me to start old 9i instance with same SID on same server.
> > I will try using a different sid to mount the controlfile and then delete the
> > old backups. The dbid and dbname will still be same so RMAN should be
> > able to find the old backups.

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